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Latter Day saints Revising Their Bibles in Missouri. Several prominent members of the Reor- ganized Church of Jesus Christ of Litter Day Saints are now in Richmond, Mo., on a curious errand. David Whitmer. the only living witness of the alleged miracle by which the Book (f Mormon was given to the world, is a resident of this town. He is a. very old man, but he retains his vigor in 8 marvellous degree, and his memory is still good. He has a fine old home here. where he has lived for ma ny years, respected by all. No man in the State stands higher in the estimation of his neighbors. He is eminent- ly pious, and lives his religion. Mr. VVhit- mer’s possession of the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon has long been known to members of the Church, but he has stead- ily refused to part with it, though often so- licited to do so. The polygamous Mormons have made several efforts to gain possession of the coveted papers, but Whitmer has de- clined to listen so any proposition they might make. The gin lemen now here are {imminent r fiicials of the organization in issouri, Iowa, Ohio, and New York. Many errors have crept into the numerous editions of the book during the last twenty years, and it was thought desirable to com- pare the present version with the original text before the death of Mr. Whitmer, w 0 holds most tenaciously to the manuscri . This examination is still in progress, Several verbal errors have been discovered, and in a few instances entire sentences have been found to have been perverted. The original contains no authorization of polygamy, as the version in use in Utah doe, and these gentlemen denounce the Mormons of that Territory in the severest terms. Mr. V‘hitmer's faith in what he claims to have seen is remarkable. He recited his ex- perience at the time of the revelation to his visitors as follows : " In 1828 when I lived in Ontario county, N. Y.. there was great excitement over the discovery by Joseph Smith, a farmer in our neighborhood, of a great treasure. Nothing was known of it in a. definite way py my family until the next year, in June, when Smith visited my father’s house. While there he was busily engaged in the translation of the;book which I learned he had found, in the form of gold plates, on the hill Cumorah,ahout two miles from Palmyra. I saw the plates frequently in Smith‘s hands, but as the characters in scribed upon them were something like Egyptian hieroglyphics, I could make no- thing out of them. Smith, however, had no difficulty in deci hering them, and as he dictated Oliver owdrey wrote. I asked Smith (nce how he came to find the plates. and he told me that the place on the hill was pointed out to him by an angel in dazz ling apparel. They were in a stone cai- ket and purported to be the hirtory of the Ne~ phites, a nation that had passed away. The plates, as I saw them. Were fastened with three rings, About half of them were loose and movable, but the others were solid as if sealed. Smith said in ixplanation of this that the angel had told him \ evy im- pressively that the loose plates alone were to be used, and that the sealed portir n was not to be tampered with. " I became interested in the matter, as Smith was a. man of grod repute. After the plates had been translted, six months hav- ing been passed in the work, the same heavenly visitant appeared to Smith and re- claimed the tahlets, informing Smith that he would replace them with other records of the lost tribes that had been brought with them from Asia, and ti at they would be all forthcoming when t be world was ready to receive them. I saw this apparition my- self. gazed with awe on the celestial mes- senger and heard him say : ‘ Blessed is the Lord and he that keeps his commandments.’ Then, as he held the plates and turned them over with his hands so that we could see them plainly. a voice that seeemed to fill a‘l space was heard, saying : ‘tht you see is true. Testify to the rame.’ Oliver Cowdrey and I, standing there, felt. as the white gar- ment of the angel faded from view, that we had received a. message from God, and we have so reeorded it. Two or three days la» ter the same angel appeared to MartinHz rris while he was in company with Smith, and placed the same injunction upon him. He described the sight and his sensations to me and they corresponded exactly with what I had seen and heard. In his translation of the tablets Smith used a small oval or kid- ney-shaped stone, which seemed endowed with the marvellous power of (onverting the characte 's on the plates, when used by Smith, into English. He would then dic- tate and Cowdrey would write. Frequently one character would make two lines of manuscript, while others made but a. word or two. I can assert emphatically, as did Cowdrey, that while Smith was dictating he had no manuscript notes, or other means of knowledge save the seer stone and the characters as shown on the plates. “ As an evidence of our belief in the div ine origin of the book, I can say that Martin Harris, one of the witnesses, mortgaged his farm for $1,500 for the purpose of having it printed, and we all contributed time and money for the purpose of circulating it. A few years age Orson Pratt and Joseph F Smith, who had been sent from Utah to se- cure the or'ginal manuscript came here, and after a. careful examination E der Pratt is lured those present that the writing was in the band of Oliver Cowdrey. He declared that the archives at Salt Lake were inccm plete without it, and he offered me any rea» sonable sum for it, butI refused to part with it, as I regarded it as a sacred trust.” Mr. Whitmer’s beliefs have undergone no change. He has refused to affiliate with any of the various branches of the Church that have sprang up through false teachings, and he restshis hopes of the future "on the teachings of Christ, the apoatles, and the prophets, and the morals and principles in- culcated in the Scriptures.” He also de- clares that the Book of Mormon is but the testimony of another nation concerning the truth and divinity of Christ and the Bible, and that that is his rock, his gospel, and his salvation. Having been misrepresented by the various branches of the Church, he re- cently had the following proclamation print. ed, and, having many copies in his possess- ion, he gives them to all of his callers : Unto : 11 nations, kindred tongues and people ui to whom these pr. sents shall come: It havingr been represented by one John Murphy of I‘olo, Caldwell county, Mo , that I in a. conversation with him last sum- mer denied my testimony as one of the three witnesses to the Book of Mormon ; To the and, therefore, that he mayunder- stand me now if he did not then, and that the world may know the truth, I wish now, standing as it were in t re very sunset of life and in the fear 0‘ God, (rice for all to make this statement : That I have never at any time denied that testimony or any part thereof, which has so long since been published with the book :5 one of the three Witnesses, '1 hose wlo know me best well In ow that I have always adhered to that testimony, and that no man may be misled or doubt my present view 3 in regard to the same, I do again affirm the truth of all my statements as then made and published. “He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear.” It was no delusion What is written is written, and he that readeth let him under- stand. And, that no one may be deceived by this statement, I wish here to state that I do not endorse polygamy or spiritual wifeism. It is a great evil, shocking to the moral sense, and the \more so because practised in the name of religion. It is of man and not of God. and is especially forbidden in the Book of Mormon itself. I do not endorse the change of the name of the Church, for as 1hi w.fe takes the name of her husband, so sheild the Church of the Limb of God take the name of its head, even Christ himself. It is the Church of Christ. 7 As to the high priesthood, Jesus Christ, himself is the last great high priest. This, too, after the order of Melchisedec, as I un- derstand the holy Scriptures. F nally, I do not en iorse any of the teach- ings of the soscalled Mormons, or Latter Day Saints, which are in conflict with the gospel of our Lori and Saviour Jesus Christ as taught in the Bible and the B)0k of Mor- mon, for the same gospel is plainly taught in both these books as I understand the \Vord of God. And if any man doubt,should he not care- fully and honestly read and understand the same before presuming to sit in judgment and condemning the light which shineth in darkness and showeth the way of eternal life as pointed out by the unerring hand of God 2 In the Spirit of Christ, who hath said, “ Follow thou me, for I am the life, the light, and the way,” I submit this statement to the world, God, in whom I trust, being my judge as to the sincerity of my mo- tives and the faith and hope that is in me of eternal life. My sincere desire is that the world may be benefitted by this plain and simple state- ment of the truth. And all the honor be to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, which is one God. strn \Viir’rMER Appended to the above are the signatures of many of the most prominent citizens of Missouri, all bearing witness to Mr. \Vhit- mer’s probity and purity of life. It is not known what disposition he will make of the manuscripts in his possession. The papers have been cut up into printers’ “takes,” and are soiled to some extent, but the handwriting is very plain. and not a word is missing. The non-polygr. mous Mormons in this section are increasing in numbers, principally by reason of the pro- found respect for the faith which Mr. Whit- mer‘s blameless life has inculated. Mop-“>â€" DR. KOCH’S CAREER. 'the Life Story of the Discoverer of the Cholera Germ. An interesting sketch of the life of Rob- ert Koch, the discoverer of the cholera germ, the man whose name is at present in everybody’s mouth,appears in a recent on m- ber of the Gartenlaube. Dr. Koch, who is now 41 years old. is a son of the Harlz Mountain. In 1866 he took his M D de- gree. For the next six years he slowly and Lb )riously worked h s way,upward as assist- ant physician in out-of-the‘way hospitals. Fortune did not smooth his road, and when in 1872 he got an appointment at VVollstein the struggle for existence had again to be fought for seven years. Under circum- stt not 3 so unfavorable for scientific research he prosecuted his studies with a success I which secured a world-wide recognition of his genius. His first distinctien was won by the publication of the results of his quiet labour on the methods of the artificial dye- ing of micros opic objects, especially of bac- ter'a. By the general public his discovery could not be appreciated, but those who understood the value of these researches in the prosecution of the study of bactaria knew that with it a new era had dawned for science. This conviction has been brilli- antly confirmed. During the last five years he has succeeded in identifying the germs of cattle disease, of consumption, and of cholera. These discoveries are not incident a1 strokes of gool luck, but the natural fruits of his own system of resoarch. The significince of these discoveries is felt even by those who have no knowledge of medi- cine. Experiments in vaccination with the poisonous matter, experiments in disinfect- ion in lal oratories, wholesale exper merits in disappearance of epidemicsâ€"all this: 3.0 but links in the chain, the last link of which the destruction of the germ of the disease, is now more attainable,but has become even probable. Honors havo been conferred up- on Dr. Koch and his colleagues on coming home from India, the breeding p‘ace of cho- lora. They have received titles and orders to which, in honour of the personal danger of the voyage of discovery, were added such distinctions as otherwise are only conferred on ioldiers. By addresses and banquets colleagues have honoured them, and it it said that the new Prolessorship of Hygiene, at Berlin, Will be given to Dr. Koch. In st ort, outward acknov ledgemenls have be en plantilully made to the modest, quixt schol- ar. Although the Germans call mm theirs’ with pride, he wi.l always remain what he is, universal, and he deserves the full and the honourable title of “ benefactor of hu- manity.” «994-»..Eâ€" James Freeman Clarke’s Latin. “Thirty years ago,” says James Freeman Clarke, “I tried the new method of pro- nouncing Latin. I was travelling in Italy. My wife, happening to see a priest pass by, asked me the meaning of the tonsure. At that moment, not. recollecting it significance, I said, ‘1 don’t know ; but: there is a riest, and Iwill ask him.’ Not knowing talian then, I first constructed a Irrtin sentence. I thought I had made it very well, and then I put it exactly, as I imagined, into the Italian pronounciation, got it ready to say, and then went to him and said it. ‘Eh l Che dite '2' he asked. I repeated it again. ‘Ah,’ said he. ‘I understand. Here, take this man to a cuii‘essor. He wants to con- fess his siiis.’ This was as near as I ever came to the Continental [i'onounciation of Latin ; and I have never tried it since.” A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. The Horrors of the Arctic as Experienced by an Explorer in the Frozen Region. The sufferings of the survivors of the Greely expedition recalls the thrilling ex- perience of a. part of the crew ohthe steamer Polaris. As told by seaman William Nide» mann, whose heroic conduct in toe ill-fated Jeanette expedition has given his name a place in the history of exploration, it rivals the wildest story ever penned by a fiction writer. “I can never forget,” he said, “the terrible experience of our pirty of nineteen when We were carried away from the P01- aris It was on the 15:h of October, 187‘). we ran in among icabergs and were c.u,;ht fast. Every moment we expecte l to see the vessel crushed, so we began to get proxii 01s out on the ice. Suddenly the ice broke and away went the Polaris, leaving nineteen of us inc'uding two Esquimaux with their families. A blind' snow-storm was rag- ing. and in fifteengiutes the Po'aris was out of sight. \Ve ha on the piece of ice on which we were drifting provisions enough to last us a month, and for 196 days we drift- ed about, sometimes surrounded by great icebergs towering high above our heads, again drifting in the open water ; some- times compelled to move hastily to prevent our being carried away when the ice broke, or again swept and drenched by the heavy seas breaking over our iceland home. Soon our provisions got so low that we were put on allowance of one biscuits day. We used to sit by the hour telling the most silly stories, listening to yarns spun by Peter Johnson, a seaman on board the Polaris, about catching seals, but we did not care to talk of home. \Ve thought that we were lost, and lost past finding, but we lived on just. the :same. Once in awhile we would catch a seal and drink its blood. Then we would eat the seal. “We threw nothing away except the gall. The entrails were thrown on the ice to freeze, and when they were solid we eat them. And when we had not even this, we chewed the sealskin, hair and all, for there was life in it. Early in the April following we were on a piece of ice perhaps 300 feet square, and wore starv- ing. To add to our misery a rain stirm set in, and continued for three days. Our tent was swept away, and for three days not a person slept. We were soaking wet, and our piece of ice rolled and tumbled in such a way that we expected every moment to be washed overboard. Then the ice came to- gether again and we started out hunting, Hare Cnristisnsen and Joe Ebeliag, the Esquimaux, and I. We were terribly hun- gry, for we had nothing to eat fcr some days. Fortunately we saw a bear and suc- ceeded in killing him. And what a. feast we had that night. I can never forget our feel- ing when one day we saw a steamer. \Ve danced with joy and fired our guns and shouted, but the people on the steamer did not see us, and she passed from our sight. Our hearts sank and we gave ourselves up forlost. Then, whenin the log, Linquest, one of the party, gave the shout, "Ship ahoy i" you should have seen us jump. There she was, and we could just see her boom. We again fired our gunqand shouted. But we could get no reply, for a. ship going through ice makes a terrible noise. UJI‘ hearts again sank as we saw her passing away from our sight. Suddenly she came into view again, and they saw us. \Ve were taken aboard, and finally reached St. John's. It was the steamer Tigress, and she had picked us up in the nick of time. Strange to say that every person in the party caught a. heavy cold when on ca on board of the Tig- ress, and all the time we were drifting on the ice each man preserved good he alth. How Industrious Italian Women Are. How little we know of people unless we live with them. Our idea of Italian women, for instance, is that they spend their time like Turkish sultanas, sleeping and loung- ing listlessly in soft couches, their only oc- cupition being love making or Derchance learning how to sing a song. Never was there a greater mistake. Italian women, even in towns and in good circumstances, work harder than any other women I know. Not a. stitch is done in the house that they do not do. They spin and make their own linen, rear their own silk we rms, knit their own stockings and the stockings for the whole family, make their own dresses, hats, bonuets, cloaks, ani supzrintend all the baking, cooking, and cleaning of the house, if they do not possibly do it themselves. They rarely go out except on Sundays, and holidays, and rarely receive visitors unless in the highest society, where: one day a week is set aside for receiving. They are perfect slaves to their husbands, whose com forts they study from morning until night. I have heard much of Italian illicit love- making, but I have never seen it It may exist, perhaps among the aristocracy, but in the middle and lower classes it is more imagination than reality. Bonny brides, even in high society, still maintain the cus- tom of making their own wedding outfits. A young friend of mine, who has just mar- ried, has brought her husband four dozen of every article of body and house linen, all made and embroidered with her own hands, even the lace which trims the house linen being her own work. All the stockings, al- so, were knitted by herself. Nor is this the exception; it is the rule; in Italy. Who, after this, shall say that the ltalian women are idlers? No one. certainly, who has known and seen them as I hive wrll ever say so : on the contrary, I would hold them up as models for all other women to imi- tate. Why, even in Rome, once the capital of the world, the women spend their time between their house and their church, vary- ing these with an occasional walk on Sun- days and great holidays, while everything in the house is done by themselves, servants being too expensive for most incomes nowa- days. 9 Wanted to Continue to grow Old. Old Mme. Rothschild, mother of the mighty capitalists, attained the age of ninety-eight. Her Wit, which was remark- able, and her intellectual faculties, which were of no common order, were preserved to the end. In her last illness, when sur- rounded by her family, her physicran being present, she whispered in a. suppliant tone to the latter. "Dear doctor, try to do something, for me.” “ Madame, what can I do? I cannot make you young again." “No, doctor, I don't want to be young again, but I want to continue to grow old.‘. The popular opera in Utah is “The Chimes of Mormon day.” HINTERESTING ITEMS. Dangers of Bicyclingâ€"A Bir: Runclieâ€"A New Chinese Order â€"1{calth of the German Empress. &c , &c. A Livrrpool bicyclist who was riding down asteep hill near that city was shot through a cottage Window by the breaking of his machine. The district around Gilcna, Karsas, is credited with being the larg‘st 2 nc produc- ing locality in the wcr'd. Last year 70,000 tons Were mined. O we 11 Victoria has issued a command that when the Prince and Princess of \Vales dine out in London. the number of guests invited to meet them is not to exceed fourteen. Two Danes have undertaken the task of paddling. in a skin covered canoe, frem Al- asks to Sin Franscisco, a distance of about 2 500 miles. The canoe is nine feet long, and covered with the skins of see. 1013. The dog, says the Beaten Journal, is the only animal able to follow man as far and as high as he can go, ;but the finer breed of dogs cannot long endure the conditions of a height of more than 12 500 feet. A enormous ranch in Mexico has just been purchased for £200,000 by a syndicate of English and Scotch speculators, of whom L ri Tweedmouth is one. It extends over sixteen hundred souare miles. The Duke of Marlborough made his maid- en speech in the House of Lords on the Fran- chise bill. It is described as “Lord Ran dolph Churchill and water.” The Duke is the head of the house of Churchill. Gan. Broth of the Salvation Army intends entering London at the close of his provin- cial tour at the head of one hundred brass bands. The Home Secretary has been ap- plied to to stop it, but he has declined. The crash must come. The State Treasurer of New Hampshire has issued a notice to the Selectmen of towns that in presenting claims for bounties on woodchucks they must certify that none of the animals were killed on Sunday, else the claim will not be allowed. A member of the House of Commons, when recently complimenting a popular actor on his clever creation of a new part in which he had made a great hit, concluded a lively criticism of the impersonation with the characteristic remark : "But what I ad- mired most of all was your shirt front. D0 tell me where you got that shirt ?" Part of the Leicester, England racecourse consists of globe land belonging to the living of Oadby. The present vicar does not dis- approve of racing. but, with a. view of pre- venting disagreeable consequences which might occur if his successor were to be a more straight-laced individual, the race committee have induced Cannon, 3 well- known jockey, to buy the living. A curious yet true tale is current at Mu- nich. King Louis of Bavaria is eaten up with debts. Some days ago he tried to ef- fect a loan with the famous Berlin banker, Herr von Bleichroeder, and a‘so with the Daimstadt Bank. Unsuccessful in both ap- plications, the King, refusing to comply with the proposed conditions, sought three Munich bankers, and has settled With them by giving a portion of the Crown lands as security. Statistics show that the tendency to sui- cide is much greater among regular gamblers from 10 sec than other business men. The sharp strain of the gambling table, short though it may be, spoils the nerves, and weakens fortitude more than the strain of business. Cavour, one of the most serene of men, was within an ace on one great gamb- ling night, of throwing half his fortune away rather than calla card, ani only called it, as he relates himself, because a drop of per- spiration rose on his opponent's forehead. Announcements have recently appeared that the order of the Double Dragon has been confered on two or three distinguished personages. Tnis is a new order instituted by the Empercr of China. in harmony with \Vestern ideas. It is divided into five grades, the first three of which are subdi- Vided into three classes. The first grade in the three classes is reserved for sovereigns, princes, and other magnates, with aremark- ably quaint, beautiful, oblong decoration, in which respect it difi'ers from the others, which are round, with inverted edges, exoept the last two, which are round and plain. They are enamelled, and of various colors. The Paris police are carrying on most ac- tiv-v operations of late against a regular or- ganized band of young rufii I115 of the very worst type. who have for a. long time been a terror to Neuilly and all around it. One of their dodges was t) congregate near the Arc de Triomphe, and watch for cabs with lug- gage. These they followed to a residence, and were most ohliging in assisting to take the luggage into the house. While there they took cognizance of the bolts and fasten- ings of windows and doors, and gained in- formation extremely valuable to those burgling there in the course of a night or two. A Beriin correspondent writes that the malady of the Empress of Germany, which has assumed a cancerous character, dates back forty vi era, to the birth of her daughter the Grand Duchess of B tden. To the repeat- ed recommendations of her physicians to quit Berlin, she has always given the an- swer: “A home needs a housewife and a court a Queen." Her reside has some twenty years ago at Coblentz is said to have been sugested in an unmistakeable manner by her husband, in consequence of her having shown a disposition to oppose the views of Prince Birmirck. The Empress’s sufferings have helped to make her deeply sympathetic with these of others. The head quarters of the gamblers in Paris is a beer shop in the Fauhourg St. Denis, where, in the last fortnight of June, all the shady knights of baccarat assemble. The house looks very tidy and respectable, and no games are a lowed there but back-gum- mon and dominoes. Numbers who frequtnt this cafe are not aware that they are in a. den of card sharpen. The latter, the p/iil- osophers, and their collaborators, styled in England “bonnet/a,” keep their appointments there, transact their littlc business, and make their arrangements for the season, without paying any attention to the detect- ives, one or two of whom are always present in a disguise that nevcr drcoivcs those inter- ested. At a seaiice in Dublin, a. thought reader boasted that he could find a. marked pin hid by one of the uudiencc. Several of them came forward, among whom was a. confeder- . looking daggers at the confederate. ate. The pin was bid by .‘L Tr'nify student 1'\ an aderining room, in the pi more of the u mm tree, among which was tr confeder- ate. The student, suspecting this man from his l0)k-°r. :lny to k toe pin from its hiding plrce. 0n the return to the [lst'orm the thought reader gazed into the hidar's face, and putting his bind to his brow, was blind- fildcd and lel the student to the hiding place, but of course could finl no pin, He returned, acknowledging his defral, and ‘ Now, gentleman," said the student, “I‘ll under- take to say that if this ‘diviner of the hu- man mind' Will do as I tell him half the auiirnce, without a single hint from me, will krov where the pin is, and, turning to the thought reader, he said: “Sit down." He did so. There was a yell, an 1, jumping up, the thought reader hastily pulled from the seat of his trousers the marked pin. W The Panama Canal. In spite of the obstacles due to the un- healthiness of the district, sparsmess of population, and the mechanical difficulties of construction progresr is being made. The line of the canal is divided into 23 sections, auperiutended by four engineers in chief. The preliminary work of organizing is now practically completed. and actual work on the canal begins to make a show. The am- ount of excavation completed up to March last is about six million cubic metres, and it is anticipated that three times as much work will be completed. Six dredges of the Slav- on type Lare being constructed in Philadel- phia at a cost of £25,000 each. Tuev are cap- able of dredging alluvium and soft coral rock Schist and grit can be dredged after blast- ing. Two dredges are expected to arrive from New York, one dredge was burned in January but has been replaced by another, one commenced work in May. The sum ex- pended during the past 3; years amounted to between £6,000,000 and £7,000,000, The efi‘ect of the canal operations has been to double the traffic in both passengers and goods on the Panama Railway. Panama itself is increasing in population, and build- ing is very active, whilst at Colon, the other extremity of the line, the place is hardly to be recognized ; from a small hamlet in 1880, it has become thr.ving town with a brisk trade and streets swarming with people. Houses, stores and other edifices, have been constructed all over the island of Manzan- illa, and the swamps and marshes are being reclaimed. In the harbor as many as sixty ships may be seen at times lying at anchor waiting for their turn to be discharged, the accommodation in quays and wharves being quite insufficient for the rapidlygrown traffic. Upwards of 82 000 tons of machinery and stores were discharged last year for the Can- al Company at Colon. There is thus a con- siderable activity, and the construction of the canal is indirectly benefitting the coun- try generally, developing and bringing it Within the boundaries of civilization and commercial enterprise. Capuchin Monkeys. Some of these little monkeys really ap- pear to rra‘on, and are very clever. Reng- ger states that when he first gave eggs to his monkeys they smashed them, and thus lost much of the'r contents; afterward they gently hit one end against some hard body, and picked ofi‘ the bits of shells with their fingers. After cutting themselves only once with a. sharp tool they would not touch it again, or would handle it with the greatest cue. Lumps of sugar were often given them when wrapped up in paper, and Rang- ger sometimes put a live wasp into the paper so that in hastily unfolding it they got stung. After this had happened once they al- ways first held the packet to their ears to detect any movement within. This break- ing of the egg in a. proper mannerisas inter- esting as two well-known facts, one of which may be observed by anybody in- the habits of American and other monkeys. Some- times a little monkey has a not given him, and he is not strong enough to crack it. He will look up into your face with a. meaning glimmer of his eyes and hand you the nut again. Crack it for him, and he receives it as a matter of course. Formerly one of the largest monkeys in the Zoological Gardens had weak teeth, and he used to break open the nuts with a stone. and Mr. Darwin was assured by the keeper that this animal after using the stone, hid it in the straw, and would not let any other monkey touch it. Reugger taught one to open palm-nuts by breaking them with a stone, and so satisfied was it with its performance. that it soon be- gan to experiment on other kinds of nuts, and then it began upm boxes. It also crushed ed" with blows of a stone the soft rind of a fruit that had a disagreeable flavor, in order to get at the luscious food within. â€"'â€"â€"â€"oo<-.~>»â€"-â€"- V British Export Trade. The exports of British ani Irish produce an i manufactures during the first five months of this year are valued at £96,971,999, an increase of £40,036 on the returns last year. A fa‘ling 06 of £1,204,245 in the exports of iron ani mctals is the only unfavorable feature of the export trade worthy of notice, either a Cl-ll riderable increase or a slight falling of! being shown. The most remark- able change has occurred in the import trade, the total value of our imports having declin- ed £10 597,l73. The figures for the first five months of last year were £180,555 412, and this year they are £169 958 239. This remarkable decline is entirely owrng to the decreasing imports of fool, the value being £12 000,000 less than last year. It cannot be supposed that the nation eats less, but the naturil inference is that the country has contributed more towards the food supply during the past five months than it did in the corresponding period of last year. We should never neglect to buy our food in the cheapest marke 7, although when that market happens to be America, we may regret that our manufactures are not taken in payment for our food ; but it is none the less pleasing to believe that our farmers are competing successfully to supply the home market with fee 1. The agricultural interest has suffered from the encroachment of foreign competi- tors, but the nation at large is benefited by supplies of food at cheaper rates than those at which it could be produced at home. With an improvement in thc agricultural industry will come an “.1ch18th home de- mand for iron. â€"London Iron Trade Er. chanye. The exercise of careful ignorance iv 33,-“ than the promptings of reckless 39mm However, where there is very little genus of any kind, the country is comparati'ely safe.